About Valerie Pourier
Born 1959. Valerie Pourier is an American artist.
Valerie Pourier (b. 1959, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California) is an Oglala-Lakota artist known for buffalo horn fabrications. She works with her husband Kevin Pourier. They are located at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The couple create wearable art from carved buffalo horn.
The couple's work is in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Their piece Winyan Wánakikśin (Women Defenders of Others) was exhibited at the National Museum of the American Indian. Their piece, Monarch Nation, was acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as part of the Renwick Gallery's 50th Anniversary Campaign.
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Who is Valerie Pourier?
Oglala Lakota artist (b. 1959)
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Valerie Pourier was born in 1959 in Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.
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Valerie Pourier is an artist.
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Valerie Pourier is American.
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